Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
HERMANN HESSEYour soul is the whole world.
More Hermann Hesse Quotes
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Each man’s life represents a road toward himself.
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Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
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Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.
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I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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Solitude is independence.
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Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.
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Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
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If I know what love is, it is because of you.
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A tree has something to say to us: Be still! Be still! Look at me!… Home is within you, or home is nowhere at all.
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Madness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
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All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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Every phenomenon on earth is symbolic, and each symbol is an open gate through which the soul, if it is ready, can enter into the inner part of the world, where you and I and day and night are all one.
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Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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Beauty does not bring happiness to the one who possesses it, but to the one who loves and admires it.
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